Los Angeles daily herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1884-1890, 1887-12-17

mater deposited In the vicinity
dwellings, where there Ia no sewerage
10 a prolific cau.e of typhoid fever
This waste, being chiefly fluid, sink
into the soil, and, with the continues
lowering o. the water, slowly perc"
lates through the parched earth, un-
til finally it reaches tie we'll waite,
and loads 1t with tastrless, odorless.
and, by sght, undiscoverable poison
We find that cholera infantum Wa.
noticeable in Downey, Knis ht's Ferry
Arhnckle and Modesto. :.
DialYa9a and dysentery were quite
prevalent in Downey, Dixon, r:tna
Mills, MERGED, Beuicir, Cedarville.
Salinas, Bakersfield, Modesto, mora
Cotton, Redding, Wheatiand, Le-
moore, Gridley, Biggs, COTTONWOOD,
Santa Cruz, Santa Ana, Tehachatl.
Susanville, Elsinore, Jolon, Calico anu
Lockeford.
Measles are prevalent in Sacramen-
to. Ukiah, Red Bluff, Me ced, Le-
moore, Lodi, Cottonwood, San Fran
CISCO, Hills Ferry, Cedarville, Mar
tinpz, Truckee, Anderson, Lockeford
and Sierra City. The type is mild
and with very limited mortality.
Scarlet feve' is noticed at present in
Sacramento, Fort Bidwell, Red Bluff,
Lodi, Truckee, Cottonwood, For 81
Hill and San Francisco.
Smallpox is becoming quite preva-
lent in San Francisco: no less than
thirty-three cases being reported in
November, and several have occurred
since. Two cases were reported by
DR.. Downing, l6 miles from suisun
one case reported in Oakland; and
one care in Elmira. This gradual
spread of the disease is giving us time
IL warning to get ready to meet the
destroyer. by constant attention to
vaccination; when all are vaccinated
the enemy is defeated, as it will have
no food upon which to subsist. We
cannot too earnestly insist upon vac
cination at once; do not wait for
,mallpox to develop, as you may con-
tract the disease when vaccination
will be too late to arrest it. There
fore We say vaccinate now and vac
cinate thoroughly.
l,iphtheria con inues to spread over
the State. 1t prevails to some extent
in San Francisco, over eighty cases
being reported last month; it is found
in Sacramento, Anaheim, Etna Mills,
Martinez, MiIlville, Bisg-, Colon. San
Jose. oakland, Anderson, iruckee.
Igo, Pomona, Santa Ana, Eureka,
Sonora, jacksonville, Williams, St.
Helena, Suisun, Pine Creek, Amador
City, and Rock Creek. In Susun it
was very prevalent, and DR.. Downing
writes that it appeared also on Grizzly
leland, in Sacramento River. In Pine
and Rock creeks, in Tehama county,
DIR. Harvey writes, tie disease Was
particularly virulent, there being
eight dea' his out of the twenty-one
cases seen. The region attacked Is,
DR.. STAN bury says, near the foothills
in places sparsely settled, and where
We would suppose the drainage good.
The first cases came directly from the
foothills.
Group is noted in those towns where
diphtheria prevails, especially in Ana
helm, Lem re, Do~ney, Milvllle,
Modesto and Redding.
Erysipelas Was noticed during the
month in Iolo, Rel Bluff, Dixon,
Lower Lake, Forest Hill, Doek-ford,
Downey, MERGED, Milville, Santa
Cruz and St. Helena. The type Was
mild, without fatality.
typhoid fever is found in nearly
every town in the State. This must
be expected from the continued alb
sence Of rain during the month. Iy-
phoid being now generally rec ,gnized
AZ due to specific infection which
finds It's indus in conditions brought
about by failure to deal properly
with the solid and liquid refuse OF
population, it is not surprising that
We should find the disease prevailing
in all those towns where sewerage is
deficient or entirely absent. We find
that in San Diego its frequency is well
marked. DR.. Huntington, an expert
enced military surgeon in charge Of
the garrison there, says the cases &C.
curing among the troops were con-
tracted outside the barracks by visit
ing insanitary spots in the city, and
thinks that the deficient sewerage of
the place, with the overcrowding
which the increased immigration has
DtCcSSiUdteu, HAS uiSseiuludtcu tIIo
fever quite extensively. In Nevada
City, DR.. Welch says, the disease has
been quite prevalent. 1t is also noted
in Etna Mills, Cedarville, TIuckee,
Lincoln, Anaheini, Bakersfield, Los
Angeles, Fort Bidwell, Sierra City,
Ukiah, Santa Cruz, Sacramento, Oak
land. Elsinore, Pomona, Pasadena
and San Jose.
Pneumonia prevails exclusively
and seems to have developed gener-
ally during the latter part of Nov-n-
Der, when the warm weather gave
place to cool days and frosty nights.
The disease has been quire severe in
San Francisco and along the coast
counties, and is noticed in some places
as heing almost epidemic.
Bronchitis is noted for its preva-
lence.
1, fuenza is also mentioned as as
suming an epidemic character in
many OF the interior towns. 1t is not.
however, accompanied by that ex-
IRENE prostration and debility which
is the general character of most cpl
denies of influenza.
GERHARD G. TYRRELL, M. D.,
Permanent Secretary California State